I saw that a demo for Resident Evil 3 Nemesis remake was available on the PS Store and I couldn’t help myself. Jill Valentine is a MAJOR videogame character crush of mine, so getting the chance to play her in this new imagining of Resi3 is awesome!
The Tl;Dr Version
Friends who knew me back in my uni days know how much I like Resident Evil. I am stoked to be able to play this remastered and redesigned version of Nemesis. The demo was short, but enough to convince me. Give it a play, it’s only about half an hour. You won’t regret it!
The Detailed Version
As soon as the cinematic begins I am blown away. Jill and Carlos are on a subway train trying to evacuate survivors. And they look fucking amazing while doing it! Seriously, I cannot begin to explain how impressed I am by the character modelling. Jill looks like the badass STARS officer she was always meant to be. She’s hot, she’s practical, she’s got scratches, scraped and grime – and her hair!!! Meanwhile Carlos looks suitably poster-boy, but without the rather obscene levels of man-buff that we got to see in games such as Resi5 and 6.
The camera moves in the way you would expect from a post-Resi4 Resident Evil Game: tight, third person, somewhat restricted view. Aiming is straightforward the the menu screens are simple and easy to navigate. Nothing out of the ordinary. Simple and effective. I may have been a bit silly and tried to start the game by going in the wrong direction – a problem I’ve had before with Resi games not always being 100% clear about what they want you to do and where they want you to go – which is odd in a fairly linear game! Traversing the world there are your usual notes and pieces of lore lying around, giving you a better insight into the world that is going to hell around you. Indeed, it is in one of these little notes that you find clues about combining health herbs and other such game mechanics – just in case you didn’t know!
As for combat: DON’T ATTACK WITH A KNIFE!!! Well, you can and I guess if you get good at it you can make it work, but I managed to get quite badly damaged by the first zombie I found. Possibly because I’m an idiot! Who knows!? Essentially, though, this is a survival horror game at its core, its clunky and awkward – but where in a lot of games that would be a problem, here its sorta the point. And despite the clunky-ness it was an entertaining way to be dispatching the undead.
Nemesis looks awesome and genuinely terrifying! I cannot wait to see more!
There isn’t really much more that can be said about a 30 minute demo other than that it looks like it will be a strong entry into the Resident Evil catalogue. It actually reminds me about how much I want to give the Resident Evil 2 remake a go, but unfortunately I just can’t justify buying it just now. I will get it eventually, and I will get this one too, but for now the demo has given me my fix – even if playing a game about viral apocalypse is a little bit too real right now…….!!!!
AHF Writes 